Ice-elevator



' (No Model.)

H. A. GLAPP 85 G. P. BAKER.

IGE ELEvATbR.

No. 290,636 Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

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PATENT HARRY A. OLAPP AND CHARLES BAKER, OF WHITE PIGEON, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,536, dated December 18, 1883. Application filed October 29, 1583. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY A. OLAPP and CHARLES l3. BAKER, citizens of the United States, resident at WVhite Pigeon, in the coun-,

ty of St. Joseph and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Elevators; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the truck. Fig. 3 is a detail view, showing the hook on the end of one of the skids.

This invention'has relation to ice-elevators; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates a pair of skids having the usual hooks at the top, and provided with a Windlass, b, regulated by pawl-and-ratchet gearing. The upper ends of the skids have a roller, 0, journaled between them, and atruck, d, having guide-flanges c and wheelsf, is constructed to run upon a track, the skids forming the track. A metal frame, 9, is mounted on the truck, and is provided with teeth or dogs 72, to engage the blocks of ice and prevent them from slipping off laterally.

To the lower end of the truck a casting, i, is secured, to which the rope is is secured, and passes over the upper roller and down to and is connected with the Windlass. A crank, Z, is provided to operate the windlass. The ice is placed upon the truck and the crank is turned to elevate the truck, which, when it reaches the tops of the skids, dumps the ice into the place of deposit.

This device is cheap, simple, and convenient, and is easily handled.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an ice-elevator, the combination, with the skids a, having the Windlass b and the roller 0,

near their upper ends, of the truck d, having the parallel flanges e e on the under faces of its side rails, and the rollers f, working in bearings in said side rails, the flanges e e be ing adapted to operate between the skids, the angular metal frame 9, secured upon the transverse slats of the truck and having its back portion provided with the forwardly-projecting teeth h, and the rope k, connected to the Windlass 12, passing over the roller 0, and connected at its other end to the casting i on the under face of the rear slat of the truck, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY A. OLAPP. CHARLES F. BAKER. Witnesses:

FRANK DRIESBACH, S. N. GURNEY. 

